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FLOOR GOVERING. N0.-252,121, I Patented Jan.10,1882.

WITNESSES! v lgym'ron W ATTORNEYST N. PETERS, PhOMLZlho'gmphun Washington, 012

. "UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES T. MEYER AND VICTOR- E. MEYER, OF JERSEY CITY, N. J.

FLOOR-COVERING.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 252,121, dated January 10, 1882.

' Application filed June 21, 1881. (No model.)

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES T. MEYER and VICTOR E. MEYER, of Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Floor-Covering, of which the following is a specification.

The object of our invention is to provide a new and improved floor-coverin g which is more durable and substantial than the floor-covering in use heretofore.

The invention consists in a floor-covering made of a fabric covered with a coating of a mixture of ground leather or analogous fiber with mineral fiber and a binding material, such as a hard varnish.

In the accompanying drawing cross sectional elevations of specimens of our improved floor-coverings are shown.

In carrying out our invention we prepare a mixture of the following ingredients, in about the proportions stated, viz: To about fifty parts, in weight, of ground leather, skins, or analogous animal fibers we add about two hundred parts, in weight, of some mineral fiber and about two hundred parts, in weight, of some pigment, and to this we add about seventy-two gallons of some binding material, such as copal varnish or some other hard varnish, to which a quantity of rubber solution is added. We do not limit ourselves to the proportions stated, but may vary them as the circumstances may require. The canvas or other fabric, A, is first sized in the ordinary manner, and a layer, B, of the above described compound or mixture is spread on the canvas, and the lower surface of the canvas is painted with oil-paint or with a more diluted compound of the above ingredients.

The coating may be of greater or less thickness, accordingto the thickness of the canvas, or as circumstances may require.

The mixture can be spread with a brush, a trowel, by machinery, or in any suitable manner, and may be applied in one or more coats.

If desired, the ground leather may be mixed with varnish only, or the varnisli,leather-fiber, and the mineral fiber may be mixed; but we prefer to use the above-described mixture.

A design is printed on this floor-covering in the ordinary manner, or it may be left plain.

The mineral fiber we propose to use is of the nature of asbestus.

Having thus fully described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. As an improved article of manufacture, a floorcovering] made substantially as herein shown and described, and consisting of a layer of canvas or another base,on which a layer or layers of a mixture of ground leather or skins, mineral fiber, pigment, and a binding material, such as copal or other varnish, are spread, as set forth.

2. Acompound for spreading on canvas for floor-coveri n gs, consistin gof a mixture or paste of copal or other varnish and ground leather or skins, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

3. A compound for spreading on canvas for floor-coverin gs, consisting of a mixture or paste of oopal or other varnish, ground leather or skins, and a mineral fiber, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

CHAS. T. MEYER. VICTOR E. MEYER.

Witnesses:

OSCAR F. GUNZ, C. SEDGWICK. 

